Minnesota governor and former Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz on Tuesday told reporters that he expects to call a special session of the Minnesota state legislature in order to push through some gun reforms.
The special session comes in the wake of a mass shooting which left two students dead, and 21 more people injured, including 18 children, after 23-year-old transgender shooter Robin Westman targeted students at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.
Walz said he plans to propose a “very comprehensive” package that could include an assault-weapons ban, but said the package would not infringe on the Second Amendment. He also admitted that he would need support from Republicans.
“To be very candid, just in a very evenly divided [Legislature], I’m going to need some Republicans to break with the orthodoxy and say that we need to do something on guns,” Walz said, per the Associated Press.
